Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-31
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

liver the annual address before the State
university at Iowa City next June.
A law student at the State University
by the name of Blake, of CLAYTON, Iowa,
who, in presiding over u class society,
struck fellow student named Temple
with mallet to keep order, has been ex-
PEELED from the school. Temple is severe
ly but not dangerously hurt.
Attachments has been issued against
the personal effects of the business mana
ger of the new daily paper of Sioux City.
Senator Clark, of Page county, has
started across the plains by the wagon
route in search of health and amusement.
It. d. Gibbons, agent Of the Singer
sewing machine in Manchester made an
assignment to f. S, Griffin, of Masonville.
Liabilities said to be SO, 900; assets 81, 900
Bush, Gage & Co., Of Chicago, claim
$4,000. All other creditors are local
residents.
DR.. T, Dewitt Talmagc, the eminent
Brooklyn divine, discoursed upon "The
Ark of Gods Mercy" to vast congrega.
ton at the Central Presbyterian church,
Des Moines. March 81.
A park scheme at Spirit Lake has been
undertaken by the board of trade of that
summer resort.
A grand shooting tournament has been
arranged at Spirit Lake for June 10. IA
and 10.
The corner stone exercises of the Sold
iers' home will probably be held April 90
at Marshalltown.
Frank Runnells, of Hastings, Nebraska,
charged with having burned the SIS, 900
high school there last November and who
made his escape from Jail several weeks
ago, has been captured at Council Bluffs.
Runnells and his father-in-law. who was
janitor of the school, had quarreled and
he burned the building to make him lose
his job.
Edward Lumley, a freight conductor
on the Illinois Central railway, is the vic
tim of an accident, crippling him for life.
Shortly after 0 o'clock on the night Of
March 20, he slipped on the track in East
Dubuque, when car ran into him,
crushing one leg at the knee, and the
other one at the ankle in such manner
that amputation Of both legs will be nee
essary to save his life. He was married
two years ago, is a native of East Du-
buque, and was taken to his mothers
house in that CITY
The Governor has called meeting Of
the Board Of Regents Of the State Uni
vcrsity to be held the Both inst, at
which time the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Prof Packard is to be con-
sidcred.
The second competitive test of car
brakes will begin in Burlington May 10.
The first piles for the new bridge across
the Mississippi at Fort Madison were
driven last week.
Hardin county has $500 school chill.
dren. Franklin county 4,3l2, Butler
county 5,312 and Grundy county 4.60S.
Nat Hudson, formerly pitcher for the
Keokuk club, has fallen heir to $50, 900
and will abandon the old time sphere for
one Of greater usefulness.
About 10 o'clock on the night of March
20 two large cribs of corn at Bcvington,
containing about 1000 bushels, were de-
stroyed by fire. The theory as to the or.
igin of the fire was that spark from
passing engine did the work, but this
is improbable as no train passed after 8
o'clock The corn and cribs consumed
belonged to the International distillery at
Des Moines.
Bowmans brewery, at Marshalltown,
which has operated and sold beer at re-
tail for several months on tho strength OF
the Brewer" decision, has been closed
on an injunction of the District Court.
Fire broke out in the North Oak pub.
lie school building, at Burlington,
March 49, creating great excitement in
the school, but the AIS pupils were all
marched out safely. The roof and upper
ceiling were entirely destroyed and
twelve rooms were deluged with water
Loss probably two thousand; fully in
sured
The executive committee Of the Iowa
Trotting Horse Breeders Association de-
cided that the next trotting meeting be
held at Ottumwa August 10Th to 10Th.
Two sisters OF the name Of Skinner, one
of whom is domestic and the other
working in factory at Dubuque, have
received notice that fortune of $50, 900
has been left to them by lately deceased
relative in Louisville, Ky.
Marshalltown has veritable faith
cure" doctress who is carrying the town
by storm. She telephones IAN argu.
ment," or prayer, or occult agency to
the diseased patient for 90, and receives
another patient for 81 in her Office, and
gives 81 talks to several within an hour.
Her Office is furnished with wardrobe,
one chair, and stand with Bible upon
it. She has nearly 80 patients mostly Ia
dies.
Iowa City is going to celebrate the 6Sth
anniversary of the Order of Odd Fellows,
April 20, on large scale. The lodge
will invite in all the brethren in Eastern
Iowa, and have grand street parade Of
the uniforme d patriarchs militants and
subordinate members, with an Grafton
and miscellaneous programme in the
evening.
DR.. Kennedy, the Secretary of the
State Board of Health, is sending out to
the four or five thousand physicians of
Iowa the address recently issued by the
Boa d, and the circular descriptive of dis
eases which physicians are required to re
port.
A park scheme which has been agitated
at Spirit Lake for nearly year seems as
If it was going to win. The object of the
park is to draw summer gatherings to
Spirit Lake and furnish entertainments.
Sever plats of ground have been submit
ted to committee of the board of trade
that has undertaken to establish park at
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